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I just look down on poor cultures, particularly those who are based upon “victim-hood” like Colin Powel apparently has. I could care less about the pigmentation of your skin. The more I hear from Colin Powell, the more I feel he actually is the product of race based promotion.

Perhaps it’s time for the GOP to become an explicitly white party, just as the DNC is an explicitly anti-white party?

Rebar on January 13, 2013 at 12:04 PM

All kidding aside, I think you’re right. Every racial group in this country has an interest group looking out for them. Whites, I belive, are targeted for replacement. Why shouldn’t there be a political party/interest group, that looks after the interest of whites. After all, Whites are people too.

If you don’t like it here THAT much, I’ll personally buy you a one-way ticket back to your disease, violence, and famine-ridden ‘homeland’ which hasn’t known any kind of widespread civilization since the British Empire fell apart.

Oh wait, you wouldn’t take that offer. Because not only are you a self-propelled sack of flatulence, you’re a lazy coward too.

“If it’s just going to represent the far right-wing of the political spectrum, I think the party is in difficulty,” he said.

I think we can draw the line for People Whose Input Is Not Welcome at “if you think the critical dynamic facing the nation is not spending or the debt or an objectively lesser issue, but whither the GOP on some abstract, meaningless scale measured by terms like: right, far right, right wing, far right wing, center right, center, and moderate.”

When the history of the United States in the early 21st Century is written, it will make no mention of the “far right.”

Awesome. Another lecture on tone from the Beltway Media’s favorite empty uniform. Powell’s relationship with the GOP establishment was always a marriage of convenience. Whatever credibility he once had eroded ages ago. The fart sniffers trot him out every time they need a straw man to shame the right. Except now he’s only preaching to the leftist choir. Anyone with a functioning brain already knoews he’s a joke.

Powell is a true RINO. That term gets thrown around a lot at more moderate Republicans but is usually not accurate. A true RINO is somebody like Powell who is simply a Republican out of habit and/or who remains nominally “Republican” simply because it gives them a certain cache among the liberals they pander to. Why be just another black Democrat when you can be a black Republican who takes every opportunity to validate the worst accusations of the Left. If Powell was just another Democrat he wouldn’t be such a useful interview for guys like David Gregory. When asked why he’s still a Republican he said it: “That’s how I was raised.” So, in other words, he’s a Republican in name only.

Black people know our history and we know that the GOP doesn’t. So when you have Larry Ward saying “if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.” And black people know about the Stono Rebellion of 1739, the New Orleans Slave revolt of 1811, Nat Turner and Thomas Jefferson’s embargo of Haiti after Toussaint L’Oeverture’s successful armed revolution against the French, we know that you all actually don’t know anything about us, that you don’t care and that you’re not trying to find out.

<blockquote>Black people know our history and we know that the GOP doesn’t. So when you have Larry Ward saying “if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.” And black people know about the Stono Rebellion of 1739, the New Orleans Slave revolt of 1811, Nat Turner and Thomas Jefferson’s embargo of Haiti after Toussaint L’Oeverture’s successful armed revolution against the French, we know that you all actually don’t know anything about us, that you don’t care and that you’re not trying to find out.

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM

And apparently some black people are as bigoted as those they accuse. You take for granted that “white GOP” doesn’t know “your” history. And I can guarantee YOU certainly don’t know the history of the parties. And just because YOU look black now and I look white doesn’t mean that some of my ancestors weren’t black slaves. You assume to much, but that is what I expect from a liberal

And do you know what party committed every single outrage against minorities in this country? Which party was founded to end slavery? Which party has always tried to prevent blacks from being educated, including today in almost every major city? You are a moron.

So when you have Larry Ward saying “if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.”

I don’t know what the problem is with this statement. Especially since an armed people are less likely to become slaves. Better firepower wins wars. I mean slaves were freed based on gun violence(Civil War)… Futhermore for someone who touts history, you certainly don’t know the history of the KKK and gun grabbing.

And I can guarantee YOU certainly don’t know the history of the parties.

Its been well established in these pages that I do.

And just because YOU look black now and I look white doesn’t mean that some of my ancestors weren’t black slaves.

When did I ever make the claim that racial identities are biological facts? Of course they are constructed and of course everyone is “mixed” race. Race is not a real thing, it is a cultural thing. Which means that whatever your ancestors are, SOCIETY, not you determines what your race is. Though I will give you props for knowing enough U.S. history to get this concept. It is lost on most people today.

When did I ever make the claim that racial identities are biological facts? Of course they are constructed and of course everyone is “mixed” race. Race is not a real thing, it is a cultural thing. Which means that whatever your ancestors are, SOCIETY, not you determines what your race is. Though I will give you props for knowing enough U.S. history to get this concept. It is lost on most people today.

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 1:10 PM

No sweetie, race is biological. Culture is sociological. And no, you don’t know the history of the political parties or the history of gun restrictions. You are only repeating your liberal talking points.

Look up the Stono Rebellion, look up the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. Those so called “founding fathers” who you held so dear, were very clear as to what would happen to slaves who took up arms against their masters. Mass murder and the public exhibition of their mutilated bodies. I know, I know, that was the Democrat’s fault. They took their gun control time machines and went back and forced planters to behead and kill anyone who took up arms against them.

Look up the Stono Rebellion, look up the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. Those so called “founding fathers” who you held so dear, were very clear as to what would happen to slaves who took up arms against their masters. Mass murder and the public exhibition of their mutilated bodies. I; know, I know, that was the Democrat’s fault. They took their gun control time machines and went back and forced planters to behead and kill anyone who took up arms against them.

I understand the penalty for taking up arms. So you are saying that basically because they were killed for having arms; that they should have just laid down and become slaves and basically die slowly? You make no sense.

Sorry but even under public execution, if someone was going to enslave me- arming myself and fighting even to death is the alternative I would choose. I may still die, but I do so free and fighting.

Did you know the penalty for fighting and losing to the British and yet a bunch of old white man armed themselves and did so. Do you know the penalty of ANY war for a soldier who is caught by the enemy? And yet, people still take up arms to stop tyranny.

Again, I don’t know what the problem is with the position and I can assure you I DO know the history.

Look up the Stono Rebellion, look up the New Orleans slave revolt of 1811. Those so called “founding fathers” who you held so dear, were very clear as to what would happen to slaves who took up arms against their masters. Mass murder and the public exhibition of their mutilated bodies. I; know, I know, that was the Democrat’s fault. They took their gun control time machines and went back and forced planters to behead and kill anyone who took up arms against them.

Holy block quote fail:

I understand the penalty for taking up arms. So you are saying that basically because they were killed for having arms; that they should have just laid down and become slaves and basically die slowly? You make no sense.

Sorry but even under public execution, if someone was going to enslave me- arming myself and fighting even to death is the alternative I would choose. I may still die, but I do so free and fighting.

Did you know the penalty for fighting and losing to the British and yet a bunch of old white man armed themselves and did so. Do you know the penalty of ANY war for a soldier who is caught by the enemy? And yet, people still take up arms to stop tyranny.

Again, I don’t know what the problem is with the position and I can assure you I DO know the history.

I know you don’t care CW, and you’re not alone. Which is why I don’t understand why people get so indignant when someone points out that most conservatives and members of the GOP are just not interested in reaching out to black people. Like, the proof is in the pudding.

Oh it is? This should be interesting. So a person has one black parent and one white parent, what is there biological race?

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM

They are both white and black, and have characteristics and genetics that come from both sides.

You think that “culture” suddenly makes you black or white, and yet who decides what that culture is? And what about the white person who immerses themselves in the black culture, does that make them black?